Japanese movies at Fantasia 2016

This week the programmation for the 20th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival was announced. Twenty years, that’s worth celebrating! It will be held in Montreal from July 14 to August 3 and screenings will take place mostly at Concordia's Theatre Hall and Salle J.A. de Sève. For more programming details you can check the festival's web page at www.fantasiafestival.com, this year’s program [PDF] and screening schedule [PDF].

This year the festival offers 60 movies from Asia: 5 from China, 26 from Japan, 20 from Korea, 6 from Hong Kong, 1 from Taiwan, and 2 from Thailand.

As usual, we will concentrate our interest on the Japanese program that includes 4 anime (in total you can also find 33 other animated features — 29 shorts and 8 movies — from various countries). Besides Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, which is probably one of the first anime ever produced in Japan, there’s nothing out of the ordinary among those titles — although we’ve noticed that there’s lots of manga adaptations. Here's a list of all the Japanese titles (with links to full description):


Anime:

• Harmony / Hamoni : 2015 / 120 mins / Dir.: Takashi Nakamura, Michael Arias. [Trailer, Wikipedia]
• I Can See You : 2016 / 9 mins / Dir. Gu Jie. [Trailer]
• Momotaro, Sacred Sailors / Momotaro, Umi No Shinpei : 1945 / 74 mins / Dir.: Mitsuyo Seo. [Wikipedia]
• Pigtails : 2016 / 28 mins / Dir.: Yoshimi Itazu (Production I.G). Adaptation of the manga Mitsuami no kami-sama by Machiko Kyo.

Live-Action:

• As the Gods Will / Kamisama no iu toori : 2014 / 116 mins / Dir.: Takashi Miike. Based on the manga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Akeji Fujimura. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• Assassination Classroom: Graduation / Ansatsu Kyoshitsu -Sotsugyou Hen- : 2016 / 118 mins / Dir.: Eiichiro Hasumi. Second part of an adaptation of Yuusei Matsui’s manga. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• Bakuman : 2015 / 120 mins / Dir.: Hitoshi Ohne. Adaptation of the manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata (Death Note) [AsianWiki, Eigapedia, IMdB]
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle / Rip Van Winkle no Hanayome : 2016 / 179 mins / Dir.: Shunji Iwai (adapting his own novel). [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailers on Vimeo & Youtube]
• Chihayafuru / Chihayafuru Kami no Ku Part 1 & Part 2 : 2015-16 / 111 mins &112 mins / Dir.: Nori Koizumi. Adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu’s acclaimed manga series. [AsianWiki, Trailers Part 1 & Part 2, Wikipedia]
• Creepy / Kuripi: Itsuwari no Rinjin : 2016 / 130 mins / Dir.: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Based on the novel by Yutaka Maekawa. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• HK2: Hentai Kamen [Masked Pervert] 2: The Abnormal Crisis : 2016 / 118 mins / Dir.: Yuichi Fukuda. Based on the comedy manga series written and illustrated by Keishū Ando. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer]
• Les hommes d’une autre planète / Jumborg Ace & Giant / Yuk Wud Jaeng Pob Jambo : Thailand / 1974 / Dir.: Chen Hun-Ming. Based on a Japanese tokusatsu / super sentai TV series produced by Tsubaraya Pro (Ultraman). [IMdB, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• If Cats Disappeared from the World / Sekai kara neko ga kietanara : 2016 / 93 mins / Dir.: Akira Nagai. Adapted from the bestseller by Genki Kawamura. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Official webpage, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• The Inerasable / Zange - Sunde wa Ikenai Heya : 2015 / 107 mins / Dir.: Yoshihiro Nakamura. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• Kaijyu Mono / Daikaiju Mono : 2016 / 120 mins / Dir.: Minoru Kawasaki. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer]
• Kiyamachi Daruma : 2015 / 116 mins / Dir.: Hideo Sakaki. Adapted from screenwriter Hiroyuki Maruno’s own novel. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer]
• Library Wars: The Last Mission / Toshokan Sanso: The Last Mission : 2015 / 120 mins / Dir.: Shinsuke Sato. Based on the light novel and manga by Hiro Arikawa. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Official webpage, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• Lowlife Love / Gesu no Ai : 2015 / 110 mins / Dir.: Eiji Uchida. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Official website, Trailers on Vimeo & Youtube]
• Parasyte: Part 1 / Kiseiju & Parasyte: Part 2 / Kiseiju Kanketsu-hen : 2014-15 / 107 mins & 117 mins / Dir.: Takashi Yamazaki. Based on the manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki. [AsianWiki Part 1 & Part 2, IMdB, Trailer Part 1 & Part 2, Wikipedia Part 1 & Part 2]
• Terraformars / Terafomazu : 2016 / 108 mins / Dir.: Takashi Miike. Adaptation of Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana’s manga. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Teaser, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• Too Young to Die! / Too Young To Die! Wakakushite Shinu : 2016 / 125 mins / Dir.: Kankuro Kudo. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer]
• The Top Secret: Murder in Mind / Himitsu the Top Secret : 2016 / 148 mins / Dir.: Keishi Otomo. Based on Reiko Shimizu’s manga. [AsianWiki, Trailer, Wikipedia]
• Ultraman X the Movie / Gekijōban Urutoraman Ekkusu Kita zo! Warera no Urutoraman : 2016 / 73 mins / Dir.: Kiyotaka Taguchi. Based on the 41st Ultraman TV series produced by Tsuburaya, this movie celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Ultraman universe! [Trailer, Wikipedia]
• What a Wonderful Family! / Kazoku wa Tsurai yo : 2016 / 108 mins / Dir.: Yoji Yamada. [AsianWiki, IMdB, Trailer, Wikipedia]

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